Compiled by Teresa
Martin Klaiber 2023
As
I have said before we have several tiny angels at Klaiber Cemetery. The grief and loss for a mother must be heart
wrenching. Jackie Ray McCormick was
stillborn 11 March 1939 at Kings Daughters Hospital in Ashland, Boyd County,
Kentucky[i]. Mother, Marie Griffith McCormick was in labor
for two days and only eighteen years old.
After
the loss of Jackie, Hager and Marie were living on Pigeon Roost in Boyd County,
with Marie’s parents Orville and Ella Griffith.
Both Orville Griffith and Hager McCormick were working on the roads with
the WPA (Work Progress Administration).
Hager
and Marie eventually moved to Ohio where both worked for Columbus Plastic
Products Company. The company was
located on Mound Street in Columbus. One of their well - known products was a
red retractable clothes line. Hager and
Marie both lived into their seventies and are buried in Gallia County, Ohio.
Jackie
Ray’s death certificate has several anomalies.
The death certificate says Jackie was female. When Marie died 1 November 1998, the obituary
states she was preceded in death by two infant sons. My father-in-law was
married the same year, was caregiver of the cemetery for many years, and told
me that Jackie was a baby boy. Lazear
Funeral Home in Ashland were the undertakers and when it was filed spelled the
Cemetery name as “Clabber Cemetery.”
